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== Position Statements ==
 
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* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
 
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* [[Statements on Global Warming]]
 
== Science Time Capsules ==
== Science Time Capsules ==
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=== From the 21st Century ===
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* [[Statements on Teaching Evolution]]
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* [[Darby, Montana School Board]]
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=== From the 20th Century ===
=== From the 20th Century ===
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* Congress Closed OTA
 
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* Nixon Abolished OST
 
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* The Apollo Mission
 
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* McCarthyism and Science
 
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* Origin of the National Science Foundation
 
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* Transistor & Laser: Useful & Useless
 
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* Lysenkoism
 
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* The Scopes Trial
 
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* 1919: Einstein Becomes a Celebrity
 
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* Relativity as "Jewish Science"
 
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* Robert Wood, René Blondlot, and N-Rays
 
=== From the 19th Century ===
=== From the 19th Century ===
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* [[Surveying the American West]]
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* Tomato: Vegetable or Fruit?
 
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* Patent Office and Perpetual Motion
 
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* A/C Power Distribution
 
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* Daylight Savings Time
 
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* Lewis & Clark
 
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* Luddism
 
=== From the 18th Century and Before ===
=== From the 18th Century and Before ===
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* [[Rhazes and Avicenna]] (10th century)
* [[Rhazes and Avicenna]] (10th century)
* [[The Latin Transmitters]] (4th century)
* [[The Latin Transmitters]] (4th century)
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* Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory
 
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* Benjamin Franklin
 
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* Thomas Jefferson
 
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* Timekeeping, Surveying, & Navigation
 
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* Newton
 
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* Galileo's Telescope
 
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* The Gregorian Calendar
 
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* The Invention of the Clock
 
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* Invention of the Magnetic Compass (12th Century)
 
== Briefings & Reviews ==
== Briefings & Reviews ==

Revision as of 04:04, 1 April 2009

Contents

Metatopics

Science Book Challenge

Science Book Notes

Science Time Capsules

From the 21st Century

From the 20th Century

From the 19th Century

From the 18th Century and Before

Briefings & Reviews

  • Evolution and the Vatican
  • Status Briefing August 2005
  • Intelligent Design
  • Anthropogenic Climate Change
  • Pseudo-Science Boondoggles
  • Pseudo-Medicine Kills People
  • The Government Rewriting Scientific Reports
  • EPA Shenanigans
  • Plan B
  • Drug Testing and FDA and Politics and Money
  • Stem-Cell Research
  • Abstinence-Only Sex Education
  • Missile-Defense "Testing"
  • Bad Newspaper Headlines
  • Social Darwinism
  • Eugenics
  • Hollywood & Gravity
  • Science on Trial
  • Hydrogen Fuel Initiatives
  • "Mad Scientists"
  • Grand Canyon Origins

Case Studies in Science

  • Plate Tectonics
  • Solar-Flare Cycles
  • The Age of the Earth
  • Solar Energy and Fusion
  • Atomic Metaphysics and the Discovery of the Electron
  • The Lumineferous Ether
  • The Positron
  • The Neutrino

People

Scientists

  • David Baltimore
  • Vannevar Bush
  • Jacques Cousteau
  • Richard Dawkins
  • Freeman Dyson
  • Sir Arthur Eddington
  • Albert Einstein
  • Richard Feynman
  • Sandford Fleming
  • Jane Goodall
  • Stephen Jay Gould
  • Brian Greene
  • Stephen Hawking
  • Danny Hillis
  • Gerald Holton
  • Nicholas Humphrey
  • C. Everett Koop
  • Richard Leakey
  • Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Peter Medawar
  • Marvin Minsky
  • Philip Morrison
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • John Allen Paulos
  • Roger Penrose
  • Martin Rees
  • Colin Renfrew
  • Oliver Sacks
  • Carl Sagan
  • John Maynard Smith
  • Ian Stewart
  • Lewis Thomas

Science Writers

  • Natalie Angier
  • James Burke
  • Kenneth Chang
  • James Gleick
  • Ben Goldacre
  • David Harris
  • Chris Mooney
  • John Allen Paulos
  • David Quammen
  • Richard Rhodes
  • Michael Shermer
  • Takashi Tachibana
  • Carl Zimmer

Other Writers

Still Others

  • Alan Alda
  • Jacob Bronowski
  • Walter Cronkite
  • James Randi
  • Daniel Schorr

US Government

Congress

  • House Committee on Government Reform Minority Office home
  • House Committee on Science home
  • Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation home

People

STEM Scorecards

Committees

Legislation

Hearings & Testimony

White House

Presidents

Vice Presidents

  • Al Gore

Supreme Court

Decisions

Federal Courts

Decisions

Agencies

Instrumentalities

  • National Academies

National Laboratories

  • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Los Alamos

Local Jurisdictions

Other Government

  • Council of Minsters of Education, Canada

Professional Societies

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • American Association of Physicists in Medicine
  • American Association of Physics Teachers
  • American Astronomical Society (AAS)
  • American Chemical Society
  • American Geological Institute
  • American Geophysical Union
  • American Institute of Biological Sciences
  • American Institute of Physics
  • American Institute of Professional Geologists
  • American Mathematical Society
  • American Medical Association
  • American Physical Society
  • American Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • American Society of Engineering Education
  • Association for Women in Mathematics
  • Association for Women in Science
  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  • British Association for the Advancement of Science
  • Council on Undergraduate Research
  • Engineering Deans Council
  • Federation of Materials Societies
  • Geological Society of America
  • IEEE
  • The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
  • Materials Research Society
  • Mathematical Association of America
  • National Association of Science Writers
  • National Science Teachers' Association
  • The Royal Society of London
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • SPIE

Organizations

Prizes

  • Dirac Medal
  • Nobel Prize

Reports and Recommendations

Interviews

Education & Learning

Science Museums

  • Planetaria

The Scientific Enterprise

  • The Role of Skepticism

Philosophy of Science

  • The Greeks
  • Aristotle & Plato
  • Francis Bacon
  • Karl Popper: Conjectures & Refutations and The Demarcation Problem
  • Rudolph Carnap
  • Thomas Kuhn

Science & Society

  • Science in Art
  • Politicizing Science

Public Health

  • The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
  • Fluoridation of Water
  • Vaccination

Essays

  • Scientific Cuisine
  • What is the cost of anti-scientism?
  • Quantifying Anti-Scientism
  • Distorting the Scientific Process
  • Anti-Scientism and US Competitiveness in Technology
  • The Language of Science
  • Science: What Good is it?
  • Poets vs. Scientists
  • Scientific Hyperbole: Walking on Water
  • "Fact" and "Truth" in Science
  • Jargon vs. Mumbo-Jumbo
  • Correlation vs. Cause: Leukemia & Cell Phones
  • "Snake Oil"

Reading List

Resource Pages

Quotations

Personal tools
science time-capsules